Whipped Cream Ingredients

Prep

Making the Crust

Mix crust ingredients together. Press into the bottom of your spring-form pan. Tip: A heavy glass with a flat bottom or similar helps.

Bake for 5 minutes at 350. Set aside.

Making the Filling

Combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl, mix until smooth with an electric mixer.

Add pumpkin, eggs, and spices, to the cream cheese mixture and beat until smooth and creamy.

Baking

This is the most tricky step. It is very easy to overcook a cheesecake. You can tell that your cheesecake is done baking when the sides have set up but the center is still wobbly and wet in appearance. Overcooking will cause ugly cracking and may affect the texture of your cheesecake.

Pour cream cheese mixture into pan and bake at 350°.

50-60 minutes for a 8″ spring-form pan.

30-40 minutes for a 9″ spring-form pan.

After about half way through keep a close eye to make sure you don’t overcook.